Holocaust Memorial Day: my account of Britain's own record on genocide published on Open Democracy. This is a shortened version of my Annual War Studies Lecture, King's College, London, 26 January 2010, 'Britain and Genocide'.
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Turn of the decade: the 2000s in historical perspective
My contribution to Open Democracy's 2010 forum.
From the archive: audio of my speech on 9/11
Speech at Sussex University, 17 October 2001.
Britain and the Cold War exhibition
I'm featured in the 'What Lies Beneath' exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, London.
BBC ‘Witness’ programme, ‘Revolution at the LSE’
I was interviewed about the 1969 crisis at the LSE: 'Students in London in the 1960s believed that they could change the world with occupations and sit-ins. When the authorities built steel gates at the London School of Economics - the students couldn't let them stand. Our history programme Witness hears from two former revolutionaries… Continue reading BBC ‘Witness’ programme, ‘Revolution at the LSE’
Britain and Genocide lecture on 26th January, London
I'm giving the Annual War Studies Lecture at King's College, London, on 26 January, the day before Holocaust Memorial Day. The lecture starts at 17.30 in the Great Hall, which is on the ground floor of the Strand campus, followed by a reception. I have attached a map. Please circulate! My title for the lecture… Continue reading Britain and Genocide lecture on 26th January, London
new article published
Martin Shaw, 'Genocide in the Global Age', in Bryan S. Wilson, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Globalisation Studies, London: Routledge, 2009, pp. 312-27.
last of the old …
OK, so I've just completed another round of posting of old material. Honestly, it's the last. Now all my online reviews since 1999 are searchable in this blog, using the categories 'reviews', 'genocide reviews' and 'war reviews'. There's some good material in them, but from now on, I promise, it will be new writing.
Review of Richard Falk and James Rosenau, 1996
Martin Shaw Richard Falk On Humane Governance: Towards a New Global Politics Cambridge: Polity, 1995, xvi + 288 pp James N Rosenau and Mary Durfee, Thinking Theory Thoroughly: Coherent Approaches to an Incoherent World Oxford: Westview, 1995, xiv + 218 pp from Millennium 1996 Each of these books is a cooperative effort, rather unusual in… Continue reading Review of Richard Falk and James Rosenau, 1996
review of Jan Aart Scholte, Globalization, 2000
Martin Shaw Jan Aart Scholte, Globalization: A Critical Introduction London: Macmillan 2000. ISBN 0-333-66022-6 Draft of a review for Millennium: Journal of International Studies Do we need another book on globalization? Jan Aart Scholte is modest enough to pose this question, but his text is a plausible riposte. What we get in here is the… Continue reading review of Jan Aart Scholte, Globalization, 2000
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